Oil-burner and oil-burning stove



(No Model.)

R. H. HOWARD.

OIL BURNER AND OIL BURNING STOVE.

No. 325,418. Patented Sept. 1 1885.

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RILEY H. HOXVARD, OF BROOKLYN, NF-XV YORK.

OIL-BURNER AND OIL-BURNING STOVE.

N- JPECZFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 325,413, dated September 1, 1885.

Application filed June 18. 1884. (X0 model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RILEY H. HOWARD, of the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Oil-Burners and OilBurning Stoves, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of the same, in which Figure l is a front elevation of a stove containing my improvement, together with my improved oil-burner. Fig. 2- is a plan view of the bottom plate of my burner to be particularly described; and Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical section of my burner and the oil can or holder with which the burner is connected, the section being on line x m, Fig.

My invention relates to a burner for burning kerosene or other volatile hydrocarbon particularly as a fuel in stoves; and it consists, first, in the combination ofthc wick-tube and devices for elevating and lowering the wick therein with the top of the lamp or oil-fount herein described, whereby the heating of the oil in the fount through the medium of the wick-tube is to a large extent avoided; and, second, in the combination of my burner with a stove or range.

A represents an oil can or lount, in an opening in the top of which the burner is secured. This fount may be rectangularin form, the length about twice the width, and the depth about one-third of the width, as represented in Figs. 2 and 3. This form, and the relative dimensions stated, adapt the fount properly to the space and place it is designed to occupy in the stove, as represented in Fig. l.

The burner is composed of two plates, B and G, the plate B covering the openingin the top of the fount, and secured thereto in anysuitable manner. It is provided with openings a, for the passage through the plate of the wicktubes, one of which is shown at b, Fig. 3. These openings are considerably broader than the cross-section of the wick-tube through their entire length excepting near their ends, where they are narrowed, as at a, Fig. 2, to the thickness or cross-section of the tube so that the tube on being passed through these openings will hein contact with the said plate only at the points 0.

On the plate B is an upwai dly extending flange, (I, carried across the ends of the plate B, and also the sides a little distance inward from their edges. In the upper edges of the longitudinal portions of this flange notches c are made, which constitute bearings for the rods or shafts (one of which is shown atf, Fig. 2) that carry the spur-wheels g, for raising and lowering the wiclr in the tubes. The shafts f are supported at each end in sleeves 71 h, in which the rods may freely turn, the said sleeves resting in the notches 6 without motion. The wick-tubes b are rectangular in form, the horizontal breadth equaling the length of the openings a in plate B, or nearly so, and of vertical. length sufiicient to extend below the plate B, and far enough above plate (J to enter the cones D. The plate 0 is also provided with openings '23, through which pass the wick-tubes,and rest-s down upon the flange d on plate B, so that the openings in the two plates shall be vertically coincident, and plate 0 is secured to plate B by screwsj The flange (l is of sut'licient width or depth to provide an air-chamber between B and 0, through which the air may circulate, whereby the plate B is kept cool. The wiclrtubes are soldered fast to the sleeves h h, and are thus supported vertically on the rod or shaft f, while the shaft is left free to revolve or rotate in the said sleeves. Openings are made in the side of the wick-tube through which the spur-wheels 9 project to engage with the wick in the tube. The said shafts f are provided at one end with buttons or fingerpieees, as shown at f, Fig. 2, for the convenient turning of the shafts for raising and lowering the wick.

The plate C has the form shown in crosssection at Fig. 8--that is to say, the plate is raised at the openings 2 the raised portion forming segments of hollow cylinders extending nearly across the plate, thus providing housings r for the spur-wheels g, or spaces within which they may revolve, and carrying the points of contact between the wick-tube and the plate 0 farther away from the plate B than would be the case if the plate 0 were plane, and thus decreasing the liability of the plate B to become heated by heat communicated from the wick-tube to the plate 0.

E is a perforated metal screen rectangular in form and. of suitable dimensions to fit down IOC carried up above the ends, leaving a space tightly over a flange, 7c, on the plate 0. This screen is provided with openings Z, through which pass the wick-tubes, as shownin Fig. 3. The cones D rest down upon and are supported by said screen.

Fig. 1,-as before stated, represents a front view of a stove or range constructed and adapted to receive the above-described burners and fount. It is intended to represent a stove with the usual fire-place and ash-pit, the burner and fount being intended to be placed in the ash-pit immediately underneath the fireplace. To this end the sides F F of the stove are provided with ribs or inwardlyprojecting flanges m at near the bottom edge of the said sides, and also with shoulders at n, and so constructed and arranged that the fountA may be passed into the stove between said flanges and shoulders and rest upon the flanges.

The upper edge of thefront opening into the ash-pit and to the fire-placeis formed as represented in Fig. 1 at p, the center part being,

through which the cones of the burners may pass, the door G being made to extend down to the lower line ofthe said opening, and when shut to close in the said cones.

Now, it is evident that in aburner thus constructed there is very slight contact between the wick-tubes and the plates 13 and G, the wick-tubes being entirely detached from both so that comparatively little heat is communicated from the burning wick through the 1 tubes to the plates covering the fount, thus obviating, in a great degree, the liability of heating and vaporization of the oil in the fount, while suitable provision is made for supporting in a fixed position the wick-tubes extending down into the fount and up into the cones, and also for raising and lowering the wicks in the tubes.

Another and important advantage of this arrangement of the Wick-tube is the facility it affords for removing a worn tube for repairs or to replace it with a new one without the inconvenience attending such operations in stoves as usually constructed.

WVhat I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In an oil-burner, the wick-tube detached from the cap or covering of the fount and attached to a wick-shaft sleeve that rests upon and is supported by the cap or covering of the oil-fount.

2. In an oil-huruer, the combination of a plate provided with an opening, a, and flange d, the plate 0, provided with the opening t, formed with the housing 1", the wick-tube g, the sleeves h h, to which the Wicktube is secured, and the shaft f, provided with the spurwheel g and fitted to turn in the said sleeves, which rest upon and are supported by the said flange d.

RILEY H. HOWARD. Vitnesses:

ROBERT JACKSON, A. G. N. VERMILYA. 

